Does anyone know Bing Davis?

Willis "Bing" Davis was born in Greer, South Carolina but grew up in Dayton, Ohio where he lives today. He attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1959. Heattended the School of the Dayton Art Institute and received his M.Ed in 1967 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Davisalso pursued graduate study at Indiana State University from1975–1976. His career as an educator includes: teaching in the Dayton Public School System; Teaching at DePauw and Miami Universities; and twenty years at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. While at CSU, Mr. Davis was also chair of the Art Department and Director of the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center. He has also served as an artist-in-residence for the School of Educationat the University of Dayton,andvisiting scholar at Wright State University. He is currently President of the Board of Directors of the National Conferenceof Artists.

Davis' record as an artist and a curator is equally illustrious,including exhibitions at Studio Museum of Harlem, American Craft Museum, Renwick Gallery, Maryland Institute College ofArt, Savannah College of Art and Design, Anacostia Museum, National Museum of Art of Senegal West Africa, U.S. EmbassyAccra, Ghana, and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts), Frankfurt, Germany. He participated in the recent Stop Asking: We Exsist exhibition of African-American craft at the Societyfor Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburg,Pennsylvania and curated the popular and groundbreakingexhibition, Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacyof African American Craft Art, which toured the United States in the mid 1990's.

Willis "Bing" Davis was born in Greer, South Carolina but grew up in Dayton, Ohio where he lives today. He attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1959. Heattended the School of the Dayton Art Institute and received his M.Ed in 1967 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Davisalso pursued graduate study at Indiana State University from1975–1976. His career as an educator includes: teaching in the Dayton Public School System; Teaching at DePauw and Miami Universities; and twenty years at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. While at CSU, Mr. Davis was also chair of the Art Department and Director of the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center. He has also served as an artist-in-residence for the School of Educationat the University of Dayton,andvisiting scholar at Wright State University. He is currently President of the Board of Directors of the National Conferenceof Artists.

Davis' record as an artist and a curator is equally illustrious,including exhibitions at Studio Museum of Harlem, American Craft Museum, Renwick Gallery, Maryland Institute College ofArt, Savannah College of Art and Design, Anacostia Museum, National Museum of Art of Senegal West Africa, U.S. EmbassyAccra, Ghana, and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts), Frankfurt, Germany. He participated in the recent Stop Asking: We Exsist exhibition of African-American craft at the Societyfor Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburg,Pennsylvania and curated the popular and groundbreakingexhibition, Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacyof African American Craft Art, which toured the United States in the mid 1990's.

Mr. Fitzwater,

I am aware of Mr. Davis' work and am glad to hear that somebody appreciates his body of work as much as I.